Yes, it is indeed Thursday 8th. Sorry for any confusion. I now have two volunteers off this list - thanks very much! - leaving one space still. Please email me if you are interested.
John On 03/09/2011 22:34, John Byrne wrote: > This Thursday there will be the first Wikipedia training session for > British Museum volunteers and other staff. The idea was to have > ideally 4 Wikimedians on hand, so we can help editing individually & > answer queries when the session becomes a general drop-in wikilounge > type event from c. 4.30. So far we have 1.5 Wikimedians! > > This is from the message sent to the BM people attending: > > "The session will be held in the Moser Room downstairs, starting at > 3.30, but please come a little early so we can sort out pc connections > etc, and be ready to get straight into the training at 3.30. There > will be a formalish session for an hour, and then a further 30 mins or > more if people want to stay on and discuss things, ask questions or > carry on editing. This period will also be advertised as general > drop-in session for queries to BM staff. Then probably to the pub. > > There should be enough Wikipedians around to offer individual help > where needed, and on-line follow-up help will be available > afterwards. The intention of the session is to provide basic editing > skills to the point where a short article can be started by - > hopefully - each participant. It is important that as many as > possible of you have a laptop or netbook to work on. We can provide > some of these, but please each let me know if you will be able to > bring your own or not. Wifi will be available. > > We will pretty much follow the tutorial here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial, and please by all > means look through this in advance of the session. Please also read > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars , which sets out > in a few hundred words the essentials of the principles behind > editing. I would also like all participants to register an account, > which involves giving no personal details whatsoever (email address > optional). This could also be done beforehand. " > > If you can come, please bring any laptop/net books you can. These are > total beginners, so the ground covered will be very basic. You can > take a part of the main presentation to the class, or just help round > the group, as you like. > > All help greatly appreciated, > > John Byrne/ Johnbod > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
